{"id":33920,"date":"2021-01-26T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=33920"},"modified":"2021-01-27T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T04:38:22","slug":"blackness-and-becoming-author-antonio-michael-downing-on-saga-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/blackness-and-becoming-author-antonio-michael-downing-on-saga-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackness and Becoming – author Antonio Michael Downing on “Saga Boy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Host:\u00a0Ivan Angelovski<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleven years after his debut novel, <\/span>Molasses, <\/span><\/i>and three years after winning the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada's top Emerging Authors for nonfiction, <\/span>Antonio Michael Downing<\/span><\/a>'s new book just came out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a memoir called <\/span>Saga Boy, My Life of Blackness and Becoming<\/span><\/i>, and it\u2019s the story of searching for identity, something this Canadian author has been exploring for a long time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Check out the archived versions of\u00a0 this program and other episodes on <\/span><\/i>radiowaterloo.ca\/news<\/span><\/i><\/a>. You can\u00a0 follow us on twitter <\/span><\/i>@RadioWaterloo<\/span><\/i><\/a>. And you can email <\/span><\/i>news@radiowaterloo.ca<\/span><\/i> to get in touch with comments or ideas about stories to cover.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The music was Blackroom by Moby, courtesy of <\/span><\/i>mobygratis.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Host:\u00a0Ivan Angelovski Eleven years after his debut novel, Molasses, and three years after winning the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada’s top Emerging Authors for nonfiction, Antonio Michael Downing’s new book just came out.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s a memoir called Saga Boy, My Life of Blackness and Becoming, and it\u2019s the story of searching for identity,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":34492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[3610,5348],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33920"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=33920"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=33920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}